Nothing "guilty pleasure" about it—-I liked that whole CD when it finally got big after a year—-I heard only one song off of it on a Canadian college station hen it first came out. The whole CD is just that good,period.

Love "Sunday Morning", too. The thing is, I had already been into real ska and reggae at least 5 years before No Doubt came onto the scene—-I was all into bands like Madness, The Specials, The Selecter, and others. So they weren't really that much of a ska band to me, anyway. I came across their second CD. The Beacon…

I love both Amnesiac, because it seemed like after Kid A, the band went back to using real instruments to make music instead of just relying on synthesizers (even though Amnesiac is actually mostly songs that didn't make it onto Kid A) and OK Computer—-I used to listen to that entire CD nonstop, and liked every song…

I got Radiohead's first five CDs (except for Kid A, I should get that one,too) so I feel you on the Radiohead love,lol. But,yeah, it's like this—-either an artist and their music is relevant to you, or it isn't. That's all that matters, not just what the media or critics think of it.

Forgot to mention—-both Serch and Pete Nice's '93 solo efforts, Return of The Product, and Dust To Dust, are both worth searching out ( I like Serch's better,though—-it's much more lively and kicking with better slamming beats—it was also unjustly slept on back in the day. Pete Nice's isn't that bad—-his style if just…

Oh, heck yeah—-Derelicts of Dialect is big-time underrated and overlooked anyway—-my favorites off that are "Green Eggs and Ham" and "Portrait Of The Artist as a Young Hood". I was surprised to learn that their best song and first real hit "Steppin To The AM" off The Cactus Album (which I love to death—-I honestly…

I don't think they were "respectable" so much as that being one of the very few white rap groups at the time to gain the respect of other rappers, they just wanted to keep it real in terms of holding the torch for hip-hop,that's all. And yeah, some of the folks they took shots at—-like Vanilla Ice with his fake…

Ok,okay—-my bad. Thanks for filling in the facts,lol.

Hell, most people didn't even have home computers in '86. The first computer class I saw where people were actually sitting at all these desks with computers on them (but wasn't in) was in my own Midwestern high school in '84. (yeah, I'm old and ancient,lol.) First internet cafe I ever saw was part of a Detroit…

Growing up in a computer lab with Itunes? LOL.

Oh,okay—thanks. I finally listened to PB online, and liked some of the songs (some of which are silly as heck) and some of them aren't that bad. Like you said, I guess people expected to be a repeat of their first album which turned out not to be the case. I'd also read in a Rolling Stone story about them a couple of…

They were huge for a minute (loved the catchy,delightful and fun as hell "Chief Rocka" ) but that was their moment. That also reminds me of another fun as hell crazy song with insane rhyming from 1992 by a group called Das Effect, I think, "They Want Effects", a hit for them,too:

Wrong—-As someone who grew up on RUN-DMC (they were one of the very first rap groups I got into back in those early days of hip=hop) and those lyrics are from one of my favorite songs by them, a funny tune called "It's Tricky", but they made far better songs than that,such as their classic "It's Like That (And That's…

Just wondering—-a question for anyone who likes it—-how come Paul's Boutique was such a flop when it came out? Was it because they waited too long (3 years) to follow up LII? I remember my younger brother (who was and still is a hip-hop head like myself) raving about it at the time it came out and saying that he…

Yeah, I heard this everywhere when it came out. I was already a young teenage female hip-hop head when Licensed To Ill came out—-to me, with the exception of "Fight For Your Right To Party", which I loved because I was also into rock big time and the song was just funny and goofy as heck—-the Beastie Boys just sounded…

Here's one: "Don't You Forget About Me", a major hit in 1985 by British group Simple Minds. It was from the movie The Breakfast Club, and their first top 40 hit. Yeah, I know it was a huge hit at the time, but damn, I straight-up hated that song back then, and radio played the hell out of it anyway (just to torture…

It's a trip hearing this news—-as a teen in the '80s, I recall when You Spin Me Round" came out, and I remember seeing the video on MTV (back in the days when it actually mattered because that's where you'd see all the new music) and thinking this Dead Or Alive dude was just ripping off Boy George's look. The song was…

There was a Japanese version and an American version of King Kong vs. Godzilla—-as a kid, I saw the American version on TV late one night since it was dubbed, but all I recall is seeing Kong wander off into the distance—-still not sure who won. Seems like it was left up to the audience to decide who won,or something…

Krampus was actually pretty damn good (and funny,with its whacked-out dark humor) for a Christmas horror flick—-I say because other than the original Black Christmas, I've seen very few Christmas horror films actually worth a damn.

Aw, how sweet! I still haven't seen L.A. Confidential myself, even though I've had it for a couple of years now Just gonna have to watch in tribute to Mr. Hanson (whose 8 Mile and In Her Shoes I liked.)